Unironically ban all gambling

  • Eris235 [undecided]
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    2 years ago

    God, its so disgusting how it looks like the only option is to ban all gambling.

    Like, I think people should be allowed to gamble. Poker is fun. Lil bets with your buds are fun.

    But the second it's legal, even only technically, the fucking pigs roll in and algorithmically induce addictions in everyone they can, and squeeze as much money as they can, with the help of lawmakers. I shouldn't be surprised to find out that the 'inducements' thing was made tax-free, but its no less disgusting. Not that 'just tax it!' is any kind of real solution, considering that just makes the state hungry to expand gambling.

    And just, the fact the Slots are usually one of the most profitable machines, and also like, the least fun? Like, its just mindless capitalist hopium, "maybe a few more leverpulls and I can afford a house?" Bleh.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Does anywhere else have a row of slot machines at every supermarket, gas station and kiosk or is that just a Finnish thing

      • Eris235 [undecided]
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        2 years ago

        Not too many places in the US as far as I've seen, but that is everywhere even vaguely near Las Vegas.

        Though you can buy those 'scratch offs' (I think) everywhere in the US, usually at supermarkets and gas stations.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          You can get scratch offs at any Finnish supermarket and kiosk (think 7/11 but wayyyyyyy smaller and with a way smaller selection) :shrug-outta-hecks:

          All gambling (with the exception of dubiously legal foreign online gambling) over here is run by a government-owned company

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Denmark also have a government-owned gambling company that does lotto, scratch-offs and sports betting. They're present at every kiosk and supermarket and also run a sizable online casino. They used to have a monopoly on gambling but due to the EU's liberal orthodoxy the "gambling market" was "liberalised" opening up for predatory betting companies to suck money out of poor people.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In Denmark it's not that common but you'll find small depressing rooms with slot machines at some head stations or small convenience stores. I've never seen it at a supermarket.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Gas station casinos exist but not everywhere. They're more visible in poor parts of the States, it's like a parasite on the ass of the nation's impoverished people.